Dino's petroleum storage tank

Bill Barnwell

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This a 9" PVC plug that I added 1/8" brass tubing to and put cotter pins in then soldered them in, taped the bottoms with 4/40 die and screwed into the top of the pvc cap that I also threaded. The stairs are plastruct that I cut out one side so that they would bend around the pvc cap. Installed piano wire through the eyelets of the cotter pins and soldered where necessary. Liked the Sinclair decals with the saying of " mellowed for 80 million years ". Remembered as a kid of a Sinclair gas station in Pa that had a Dino on the front of the station that you had to walk through to get to the inside, so I added the Dino just for fun ( jockulairty ) as it maybe. Lot of fun to build and the Grand Kids love it. Bill view
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Fantastic! Great piece of imaginative modelling.
Can I assume that cotter pins are what we call split pins? I always thought cotter pins were tapered bolts for clamping wheels etc to shafts
 
Wow!
Now I have another cool idea to emiulate over in my fake oil field.


VERY WELL DONE
 
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Paul M said:
Fantastic! Great piece of imaginative modelling.
Can I assume that cotter pins are what we call split pins? I always thought cotter pins were tapered bolts for clamping wheels etc to shafts
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well not being sure what split pins are I would have to say probably, they are pins made of very bendable material and fold in half with 1 end open and the other end forming a eye or hole, used on shafts with holes and nuts that have spaces, cotter pin is inserted in hole of shaft and in between spaces in nut, bent over to prevent nut from coming unscrewed. If you need a picture I will provide one. Also use them making stand offs for rails on loco's by inserting in pop rivet crush sleeve small end providing a base for the stand off with the large end. Thanks much for the kind comment, Bill
 
Paul M said:
Fantastic! Great piece of imaginative modelling.
Can I assume that cotter pins are what we call split pins? I always thought cotter pins were tapered bolts for clamping wheels etc to shafts
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Yes and yes.
A cotter pin is both a split pin and/or a tapered pin (usually with a threaded narrow end to tale a nut)..
 
Bill Barnwell said:
This a 9" PVC plug that I added 1/8" brass tubing to and put cotter pins in then soldered them in, taped the bottoms with 4/40 die and screwed into the top of the pvc cap that I also threaded. The stairs are plastruct that I cut out one side so that they would bend around the pvc cap. Installed piano wire through the eyelets of the cotter pins and soldered where necessary. Liked the Sinclair decals with the saying of " mellowed for 80 million years ". Remembered as a kid of a Sinclair gas station in Pa that had a Dino on the front of the station that you had to walk through to get to the inside, so I added the Dino just for fun ( jockulairty ) as it maybe. Lot of fun to build and the Grand Kids love it. Bill view
4d67a7d02b15350b876b8e796417ca18.jpg
c372043a79fefec59761f3db0b629ff0.jpg
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Now that is something totally different. Lovely.
 
Bill Barnwell said:
well not being sure what split pins are I would have to say probably, they are pins made of very bendable material and fold in half with 1 end open and the other end forming a eye or hole, used on shafts with holes and nuts that have spaces, cotter pin is inserted in hole of shaft and in between spaces in nut, bent over to prevent nut from coming unscrewed. If you need a picture I will provide one. Also use them making stand offs for rails on loco's by inserting in pop rivet crush sleeve small end providing a base for the stand off with the large end. Thanks much for the kind comment, Bill
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Yes I know them as split pins. Great idea using them as railings
 
OK, you have peaked my curiosity..

What is / do you use a 'pop-rivet crush sleeve' for?

We have po (or blind) rivets this side of the water, but not come across these accessories??
 
As, yes.. That makes perfect sense..

It was the long 'brass' tubes, with the thread(?) on the end, I couldn't work-out..

Thanks.
PhilP
 
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